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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 12h

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11h

“Keep vast numbers of DVDs, CDs and vinyl in case of cyberattack, middle-aged dads told”

Steve Beresford @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 12h

Then: the office of the future will be paperless

Now: keep paper records

Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told

Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Microplastics are released from plastic when exposed to heat, including leaching from tea bags into hot tea and plastic containers releasing nanoplastics when microwaved. While health effects are still unclear, minimizing heating plastic is a simple way to reduce exposure.

Microplastics are everywhere. You can do one simple thing to avoid them.

The biggest sources of microplastics have one thing in common: Heat.

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 23h

#NYRBWomen25 Eve Babitz's guide to Los Angeles. la.curbed.com/maps/los-ang...

Eve Babitz's guide to Los Angeles

Take a tour of the writer’s sexy, smoggy city of the 1960s and ’70s.

la.curbed.com

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 1d

Romantic fiction is the best kind of fantasy fiction there is ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent @financialtimes.com interactive story on grid scale batteries and their impact on our electricity system.

"How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution"

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How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution

Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

'Honeysuckle’ design, 1883 by May Morris, influential textile artist and designer of the Arts and Crafts movement #WomensArt

Painted design with a mass of green leaves and twisting vines as well as pink and white blossoms, all on a white background

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Ethan “Spooky [gestures at world]🧙‍♂️” Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 1d

I can't believe this meme is now old enough to tie its shoes.
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TheBigMike1983 @thebigmike1983.bsky.social · Jan 27

Happy Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day!

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 1d

what a delightful thread 🍂🐌

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 1d

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 2d

This Ian Penman @lrb.co.uk essay on Brian Eno is beautiful, good old, curious, culture writing. The way it opens will stay with me for so, so long. Powerful, moving writing! An essay for the ages.

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 26d

Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.

"Not taking dance lessons is a common mistake
among men. They fail to realize that dancing is one of the few things
a man can learn when he’s young that will come in handy later. Men
who know how to dance—even a few basic steps—will never end up
sad and alone, with nobody to play with, because women will always
be looking for that rare man who can dance. They’ll take him to night
clubs and parties and on cruises, and they’ll go all mushy after a
simple waltz." from "Gotta Dance," Collected in I Used to Be Charming

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 2d

Team Yoko Ogawa 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 5d

László Krasznahorkai

“Only the people played a role in the existence of God…not God.”
L.K. at the London Review of Books bookshop, 2020.

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 2d

Lots to ponder upon here. I’d add my two bits: once upon a time there were design-centric movies like Jacques Tatti’s and I’m sure also similarly obsessed literature. Now in books and movies what we have is a parody of all forms of design and architecture in life.

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 2d

laszlo krazsnahorkai with george szirtes in the white review

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 14d

My terrible advice to people in their 20s is: drink a lot. A LOT. Not to a problem level, but oh my god once you hit the back half of your thirties and beyond you will NOT be able to drink (or to recover from drinking) nearly so easily.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

Social capital isn’t meant to be hoarded
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Social capital isn’t meant to be hoarded

Models for your groups to take action, spread the love, and pop the bubble

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11d

Alexander Skarsgård, five minutes after the Pillion trailer was released:

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 2d

“Reds is also like winter in that it is incredibly long, stretching past three hours, so stuffed to the brim with details that by the time it reaches intermission an hour and 45 minutes in, you’re left wondering how it could possibly wrap everything up.” 💌

www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/12/20/i...

It's Always Winter in 'Reds' (1981)

It’s always winter in Reds, and someone is always fighting, someone is always hoping, someone is always gritting their teeth and doing the work.

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 3d

Gotto get a sub!

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 5d

This went up last Friday around The Appointed Time, albeit not at Defector. I really liked the movie, and appreciated the opportunity to write some descriptive language about 1970s Gene Hackman movies.

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 5d

Here's a super thoughtful take on "One Battle After Another" from @davidjroth.bsky.social ... he puts it in the context of 1970s thrillers whose style informed the film. Then he identifies what makes it different. And maybe more hopeful. Only on @flaminghydra.com! flaminghydra.com/winning-isnt...

Winning Isn’t Everything

It will be clear that I am not offering a self-care tip by the time you finish reading this sentence, but when things started getting dark for me around the beginning of this year I started watching m...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4d

I’m rewatching “True Blood” and I forgot that HBO used to be so slutty. What a time.

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